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Christopher Tubbs edited comment on ACCUMULO-2929 at 5/27/15 5:57 PM: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alternatively, we can add {{-cf}} and {{-cq}} options to the scan command which is mutually exclusive with {{-c}}. was (Author: ctubbsii): Alternatively, we can add {{-cf}} and {{-cq}} options to the scan commend which is mutually exclusive with {{-c}}. > Cannot interact with columns containing colon in shell > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: ACCUMULO-2929 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-2929 > Project: Accumulo > Issue Type: Bug > Components: shell > Affects Versions: 1.5.1, 1.6.0 > Reporter: Josh Elser > Priority: Trivial > Fix For: 1.6.3, 1.8.0, 1.7.1 > > > For context: see > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24295183/is-there-a-way-to-pass-a-column-family-containing-colons-to-the-shells-scan-com > For commands that have a {{-c}} option (e.g. InsertCommand, GrepCommand, > ScanCommand), there is currently no way to specify a column family that > contains a colon as it is interpreted as the delimiter between the column > family and column qualifier 'cf\[:cq\]'. > It would be very simple to support a basic escape '\' character that would > allow users to use column families which contain colons in the shell. > For example, to scan for the Key with a row of {{foo}}, a column family of > {{person:information}}, and a column qualifier of {{name}}, I should be able > to submit the following in the shell: > {noformat} > user@instance> scan -r foo -c person\:information:name > foo person:information:name [] Josh > {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)